Semester 1
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1. The Development of National Language
Policies:
1) The decision making structures at the level
of the state,
2) Language attitudes at the level of individual
language users,
3) The interaction between 1) and 2).
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2. The Research
Project: Surveying and Analysing National Language
Attitudes:
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Week
1
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Introduction to the language
survey background and its relevance to language
policy. |
Week 2
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Designing and preparing
the Language Attitude Questionnaire.
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Week 3
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National survey
methods and data collection training and Field
Work..
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Week 4
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Debriefing and discussion
of field experience.
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Week 5-6
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Modelling of survey data
analysis and discussion of student research project
design (whilst data collected is being coded). |
Week 7
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Presentation to students
of overall findings and the assigning of specific
bodies of data to be analysed as part of individual
student Research Project |
Weeks 8-9
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Language Attitude Surveys
within the literature on Language Policy. |
Week 10
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Submission of 1st Draft
of Research Project Report. |
Weeks 11-12
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Feedback on drafts, as
well as review of the impact of research findings
on language policy in Jamaica.
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Class Of Week
30th
Jan. 2006
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Submission deadline
for Research Project. |
Semester 2
Week 1 (16 Jan 06):
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Course Administration
and Overview of Language Planning issues.
Identity consciousness, nationalism and language:
The relationship between concepts such as nation,
state and language.
Readings: Any good introductory Sociolinguistics
Text such as
Wardaugh (1986) or Romaine (2001).
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| Week 2 (23 Jan
06): |
The functional domains
of language and language status: What constitutes
an official language and the relationship between
this and notions such as diglossia?
Readings: Wardaugh (1986) Chapter 4.
Tutorial: Frequently used sociolinguistic terms
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| Week 3 (30 Jan
06): |
The impact of technology
e.g.; writing, the print press, electronic media
and the emergence of national language.
Readings: Ong (1982) p 93-103 & 117-133. Illich
(1981) p 39-43.
Tutorial: The Nation/State distinction and Diglossia,
Devonish (2003).
Submission deadline for Research Project
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| Week 4 (6 Feb
06): |
Linguistic Human
Rights: Introduction.
Readings: Kontra et al. (1999). Introduction p
1-21.
Tutorial: Electronic Orature, Devonish (1998a)
p 33-53.
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| Week 5 (13 Feb
06): |
Linguistic Human
Rights: Legal Issues
Readings: Kontra et al. (1999). The Existing Rights
of Minorities
in International Law, p 117-142.
Tutorial: The Public Defender (interim) Act (2000).
Language Rights in the Draft Charter of Rights
in the
Jamaican Constitution, Devonish (2001).
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| Week 6 (20 Feb
06): |
Linguistic Human
Rights: Market Issues
Readings: Kontra et al. (1999). Market Forces,
Language Spread
and Linguistic Diversity, p 169-186.
Grin (2003) Chapter 7.
Tutorial: The Slovak State Law as a Trade Law
Problem,
Kontra et al. (1999) p 147-165.
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| 27 Feb 06: |
Semester Break to
4 Mar 06.
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| Week 7 (6 Mar
06): |
Multilingual Education:
What kind of bilingualism is the goal of bilingual
education policies. Weak and strong forms of bilingual
education
Readings: Skutnabb-Kangas (2000) Chapter 8.
Tutorial: Language rights in the Emerging World
Linguistic Order.
Kontra et al. (1999) p 223-241
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| Week 8 (13 Mar
06): |
Corpus Planning:
Selection of language varieties to be normalized.
Readings: Burke (2004) Chapter 4.
Tutorial: Jamaica’s Language Education Policy,
MOEYC (2001
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| Week 9 (20 Mar
06): |
Corpus Planning:
Orthography development and standardization.
Readings: Tabouret-Keller et al. (eds) (1997)
Chapter 3.
Tutorial: Bilingual Education programmes in Jamaica
(handouts).
Essays due during this week
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| Week 10 (27 Mar
06): |
Corpus Planning:
Morpho-syntactic standardization, and Lexical
standardization and expansion.
Readings: Deumert (2003) Germanic standardizations,
p 405-427.
Tutorial: Caribbean Creoles. Deumert (2003) p
41-64
Final date for handing in Essays (cut off time:
1:15pm).
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| Week 11 (3 Apr
06): |
Implementation
Readings: Kontra et al. (1999). Separating Language
from
Ethnicity p 245-262.
Tutorial: English standardization. Deumert (2003)
p 127-150
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| Week 11 (3 Apr
06): |
Implementation
Readings: Kontra et al. (1999). Separating Language
from
Ethnicity p 245-262.
Tutorial: English standardization. Deumert (2003)
p 127-150
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| Week 12 (10 Apr
06): |
Revision and exam
preparation.
Readings: All
Tutorial: Language Policy in a Changing Society
Kontra et al. (1999) p 263-276.
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| Week 13 (17 Apr
06): |
No lecture (Easter
Monday)
Readings: All
Tutorial: Discussion of past papers
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